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The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

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If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.

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A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

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It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.

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Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the business or its price. When we are convinced as to attractiveness, we believe in buying worthwhile amounts.

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What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

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If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

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I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

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I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

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Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

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If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.

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